“empire”
[ 2008 c.e. ]
mixed media on
canvas, [ acrylic, watercolor and oil,]
with both found and
fashioned objects:
6 ft x 4 ft with
interactive electronic and manual sound devices...
some words that
may facilitate a more comprehensive understanding:
-an upside down flag
represents the distress of the country represented by the flag...
-“custer died for
your sins”,
and o.j. simpson was
acquitted for your sins as well, [ the kkk etc.]...
-american empire lust
was fired by the weasel phrase “manifest destiny”,
ergo fuck “manifest
destiny”, as empire = imperialism = evil...
-racism = whitey
rules, from babies on up the chain,
[ and not being
totally devoid of the desire for redemption,]
“empire” displays 1
out of 8 babies with their eyes open...
-computers represent
the technological division,
walls dividing human
touch from human touch, the decline of physicality,
the fast track to
consumerism and the commensurate devaluation of humanity...
-theism =
discrimination, fear, cowardice, defiance of reality and what is knowable,
[ relevant,] and a
hotbed of violence, as all theism eventually breeds extremism...
-animal tail = the
primal state, [ morally,] of human savagery and reversion...
-weapons and ammo =
violence, aggression and the chronic lust for their use...
guns, guns, guns,
guns and more fucking guns; this is an aggressor nation...
-how pharmaceuticals
go to the instant grat mentality, or “control” of a problem rather than the
character building hard work of existentialistic effort
that should be employed
towards the solution of said problem,
[ drive thru mental
health,] ie; the “easy fix”,
and drains the
spiritual*, [*non theistic,] gene pool to the point of no return...
-native american
applications go to this 2 faced aggressor nation’s birth via the ethnic
cleansing of its indigenous peoples and built upon a constitution penned by
white, male, racist and sexist power brokers,
and does not fit even
my minimal ideal of what is moral...
-on the inside wall
of the left vertical frame,
there is “the doorbell
to
but as in real life,
no one answers, [ the absence of mass civil disobedience.]...
additionally, below
that, there is a removable tuning fork
placed strategically
next to the 1 baby with its eyes wide open, [ hope ?]...
-the transcenderarts
motif of mirrors asks again,
“can you see yourself
as part of the problem or the solution, [ are you guilty ?]...
-the nra stickers, [ national
rifle association,] and other connected allusions all speak for
themselves and reiterates the lust for implements of destruction
rather than the
positive icons that should be in their stead...
-population control,
non violent activism, drug paraphernalia, currency notes,
theist symbols, all
go to the issues of gravamen that leave us on the long decline,
and the end phase
will render the roman version but a sunny day in the park...